Teddy Bear Containing Late Mother's Voice Recording Belonging To 7-Year-Old Boy Discovered By Kind Stranger

Aug 28, 2019 by apost team

A family from Nova Scotia recently took a fun family trip to Airdrie. While they took many memories back home with them, one very important one was left behind.

In Nose Creek Park, slipped over a post, was a backpack and a teddy bear. However, this teddy bear was a special kind that you couldn’t just find anywhere. It was a very important relic to Duncan MacMaster, the 7-year-old who owned it.

His mother had recently passed away. The teddy bear contained a voice box that held a recording of her voice, made especially for Duncan. When the family got home and realized that the backpack and bear were missing, they decided to take action. Ranelle MacMaster, Duncan’s stepmother, contacted the local radio station to make a heartfelt plea.

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Another mother found the abandoned backpack when she and her son headed to the park one afternoon. Heidi Erickson, a local of the area, remembers that she was surprised when she saw the backpack, as it wasn’t there when she first arrived. Realizing that it looked familiar, she opened it up. She was in disbelief when she saw that the bear was in the backpack, she said to CBC News.

When he squeezed the tummy and they heard the special message, she realized it was a beautiful, personal message. They immediately contacted the local radio station to tell them that the bear was safe and sound. They also added their own spin to the story by photographing the bear at different local attractions and making a book.

The radio station that had originally broadcast the story promised to get the bear back to Duncan. He was relieved to get the bear and his other belongings back, safe and sound. He told the news that he had been very upset to lose his “Momma Bear.”

Many people reached out to thank Erickson for finding the bear, but she said that the real heroes are Duncan’s mothers. She thanked his birth mother for leaving the touching message for her son and the stepmom for going out of her way to relocate the lost bear.

"The real heroes of this story are Duncan’s moms," she told Global News Canada. "His birth mom, who cared enough to leave that message for her son before she passed, and also his stepmom, who cared enough to keep that memory alive, who cared enough to reach out to a community to find this bear."

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